"Despite these setbacks, Reichmann successfully rebuilt a small portion of his empire. This included setting up a partnership with George Soros, Lawrence Tisch and Michael Price, along with investors such as Saudi Prince Al-Waleed, to purchase a controlling stake in Canary Wharf from the banks that made the original construction loans to Reichmann and which had taken control of the development. Reichmann became Chairman of Canary Wharf again and remained so until 2004... In September 2006, Reichmann announced that he was bored with retirement and that he would be setting up a new $4 billion fund, based in Toronto, with offices in Great Britain and the Netherlands."

"In Canada, Reichmann's once sterling reputation also began to suffer. In 1985 the company had bought Gulf Canada Resources in a deal that included some $300 million in tax breaks. Many Canadians were infuriated that a massive corporation had been given such a lucrative deal. Toronto Life magazine also published a highly critical article on the Reichmanns. The family took offence at allegations that Samuel Reichmann had aided the Nazis with illegal smuggling operations during the Second World War. The family sued the magazine for an unprecedented $102 million. They were successful, and Toronto Life published a full retraction."

"At their apex in 1990, the Reichmanns held about 8 percent of New York City’s commercial office space, more than twice as much as their closest rival, the Rockefellers...

Crushed under debts of more than $20 billion, Olympia & York went bankrupt. The Reichmanns were left with a net worth of less than $100 million — one of the most astonishing financial collapses in history...

When the design for the World Financial Center was unveiled in 1981, it was hailed as “the finest group of skyscrapers since Rockefeller Center,” by Paul Goldberger, The New York Times’s architecture critic.

By the end of the 1980s, the Reichmanns were the seventh-richest family in the world, according to Fortune magazine. But they still lived relatively modestly in the same upper-middle-class homes they had built for themselves in their Toronto suburb a generation before."

In the United States Werner became Vice President of Davis' company Davis & Co., which shipped large quantities of oil to Germany and became a propaganda strategist and financial aid of the America First Committee, which encouraged American isolationism. In 1940 the Nazis seized large quantities of diamonds from Belgium and the Netherlands, which Werner was smuggling to the U.S. The United States was neutral and did not declare war until December 1941. To avoid detection he moved the diamonds through various European cities, shipped them to South America and they eventually found their way to New York City. The operation was stumbled upon by mistake [ha, ha] by agents of the Treasury Department when they searched a Budweiser beer box being carried by two American soldiers of German descent. On inspection of the box they found it had a false bottom under which were one hundred letters and government bonds. The letters detailed Werner's diamond smuggling operation. After further investigation von Clemm was arrested on 28 January 1942 and was sentenced to two years in prison for his crime. On his release he entered private banking.

"Mr President, a decade ago we revived this country by setting out in a new Conservative direction. We didn't seek a more comfortable way of muddling through, some means of making socialism work in a less destructive way. We too had learned what our Polish guest [???] had experienced far more bitterly: that Socialism can't be improved, it has to be removed. [applause]...

Of course, we have long been committed to joining the ERM—but only when our own policies of firm financial discipline were seen to be working.

The signs are clear that our policies to bring down inflationary pressures are succeeding and that monetary growth is back within its limits. It was this which enabled us to cut interest rates. Inflation announced this morning is 10.9 per cent. But it will soon begin to decline.

And joining the ERM will reinforce our own financial discipline against it. [applause] And it will require industry to remain competitive. Inflation is still too high. But it must and will be beaten.

Mr President, our entry into the ERM has been warmly welcomed by our Community partners.

But as John Major made absolutely clear yesterday, this Government has no intention of agreeing to the imposition of a single currency. [applause] That would be entering a federal Europe through the back-Delors. [laughter] Any such proposal involves a loss of sovereignty which Parliament would not accept. [applause]..."

Will the Prime Minister tell us whether she intends to continue her personal fight against a single currency and an independent central bank when she leaves office?

Mr. Dennis Skinner (Bolsover)

No. She is going to be the governor. [Laughter.]

The Prime Minister

What a good idea. I had not thought of that. But if I were, there would be no European central bank accountable to no one, least of all national Parliaments. The point of that kind of Europe with a central bank is no democracy, taking powers away from every single Parliament, and having a single currency, a monetary policy and interest rates which take all political power away from us. As my right hon. Friend the Member for Blaby (Mr. Lawson) said in his first speech after the proposal for a single currency was made, a single currency is about the politics of Europe, it is about a federal Europe by the back door. So I shall consider the proposal of the hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner). Now where were we? I am enjoying this.

Mr. Michael Carttiss (Great Yarmouth)

Cancel it. You can wipe the floor with these people.

The Prime Minister

Yes, indeed—I was talking about Europe and the socialist ideal of Europe. Not for us the corporatism, socialism and central control. We leave those to the Opposition. Ours is a larger vision of a Community whose member states co-operate with one another more and more closely to the benefit of all.

Are we then to be censured for standing up for a free and open Britain in a free and open Europe? No. Our policies are in tune with the deepest instincts of the British people. We shall win the censure motion, so we shall not be censured for what is thoroughly right.

Under our leadership, Britain has been just as influential in shaping the wider Europe and the relations between East and West. Ten years ago, the eastern part of Europe lay under totalitarian rule, its people knowing neither rights nor liberties. Today, we have a Europe in which democracy, the rule of law and basic human rights are spreading ever more widely, where the threat to our security from the overwhelming conventional forces of the Warsaw pact has been removed: where the Berlin wall has been torn down and the cold war is at an end.

The date was no more definite today than it was a week ago, when Mr. Major gave the Conservative troops, and British mortgage payers, a shot in the arm by cutting the basic interest rate from 15 to 14 percent, saying inflation was finally coming under control.

He also announced that Britain was finally joining the European Monetary System and tying its inflation-ridden currency more closely to the German mark, which has inflated by a mere 3 percent over the last year.

This ended months of Government indecision caused by Mrs. Thatcher's reported refusal to surrender British sovereignty over the money supply to a European central bank that would become necessary if Europe ever decides on a single currency to replace the pound sterling, the mark and all the rest, as advocated by the European Community's President, Jacques Delors.

''This Government has no intention of agreeing to the imposition of a single currency,'' Mrs. Thatcher said today. ''That would be entering a federal Europe through the back-Delors.''

Równia pochyła po 1990, niestety (wiki): "Thatcher returned to the backbenches (1990) as a constituency parliamentarian after leaving the premiership.[277] Her domestic approval rating recovered after her resignation; the balance of public opinion was that her government had been good for the country.[258][278]Aged 66, she retired from the House at the 1992 general election, saying that leaving the Commons would allow her more freedom to speak her mind.[279]

Post-Commons: 1992–2003

Upon leaving the House of Commons, Thatcher became the first former Prime Minister to set up a foundation;[280] the British wing of the Margaret Thatcher Foundation was dissolved in 2005 due to financial difficulties."

I ten szczegół: "The date was no more definite today than it was a week ago, when Mr. Major gave the Conservative troops, and British mortgage payers, a shot in the arm by cutting the basic interest ratefrom 15 to 14 percent, saying inflation was finally coming under control."

From 1984–1994, Rolet worked at Goldman Sachs in New York and London. At Goldman, he started on the international arbitrage desk in New York...

In March 2016, the company announced it had reached an agreement with Deutsche Boerse AG to merge. The merger attempt was blocked by EU Regulator stating "The Commission's investigation concluded the merger would have created a de facto monopoly in the markets for clearing fixed income instruments".